On 18 February 2015 at 22:13, Jeremy DeHaan via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 19:24:22 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> GDC and DMD are not ABI compatible. There are many reasons why this >> is so, but the one that is likely affecting you is because DMD emits >> references to symbols that do not exist in GDC's runtime library. >> >> Iain. > > > I was thinking about this today and I had another question. What about > shared libraries? If I were to release a library on Linux in shared library > form, would it be compatible between compilers?
The answer would still be no because of calling convention differences - another reason why GDC and DMD are not ABI compatible. However, if you used an extern(C) API, then that should be at least some guarantee of shared library compatibility. Iain.
